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May 14, 2015 Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News
More than six years after the body of 56-year- old Colleen Forrester was found bound in a septic tank in
William Street, Campbellville, the three men fingered in her disappearance are currently facing the Judge and Jury at the High Court in Georgetown for murder.
On December 27, 2007, Forrester, who had been at her brother’s house at Lot 55 William Street, Campbellville, was allegedly strangled and beaten to death with a pestle (mortar stick) by her nephew, Anthony De Paul Hope, and his two friends who then dumped her body in the septic tank.
After neighbours noticed she was missing, they raised an alarm. On January 6, 2008, her body was found by police ranks with her ankles bound and her body wrapped in several sheets in the septic tank.
De Paul Hope, called ‘Papa’, 27, of ‘C’ Field Sophia, RalphTyndall, 28, of ‘C’ Field, Sophia; and 28-year old Kevin O’Neil of Seaforth Street, Campbellville are currently on trial for the murder.
Their trial began yesterday before Justice Roxanne George-Wiltshire and a 12-member mixed jury. According to the indictment, the trio is said to have murdered the woman sometime between December 27, 2007 and January 6, 2008.
They have since pleaded not guilty to the charge. While Attorneys-at-Law, George Thomas, Madan Kissoon and Melville Duke are providing legal representation to the three accused persons, State Prosecutors Stacey Goodings, Diana Kaulesar and Shawnette Austin will be presenting the case.
At the commencement of the trial yesterday, Prosecutor Austin told the court that 15 witnesses are expected to testify in the matter. She said that during the course of the trial, witnesses will provide evidence to show that Forrester’s nephew, De Paul Hope, and O’ Neil who was also known to the family, together with Tyndall committed the act.
Austin said that the victim was reported missing after she left for the Main Street Lime with her 10 year- old granddaughter, Nikita, on December, 27, 2007.
According to the prosecutor, the woman and her granddaughter reportedly left the event and headed for her brother’s home in Campbellville; she disappeared, shortly after. Days later, Forrester’s body turned up in a septic tank.
Yesterday, Police Constable, Alana Harry, testified that she took a missing person’s report from Clayton Forrester and his 10 year- old niece, Nikita, while on duty at the Prashad Nagar Police outpost in January, 2008.
She recalled that as a result of what the two persons told her, she directed them to Sergeant Wilson of the Alberttown Police Station.
The witness also noted that it was reported to her, that Forrester and her nephew had an argument over money prior to her disappearance.
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